The Only Way to Save Jacksonville Football

Rumor has it that the Jags will be the 'team' to go to London....The only way to save Jacksonville is bring in Florida's savior for next season and draft Tim Tebow.

One movie to look forward to in 3 months

Happy Anniversary Pete!

Has it been twenty years. On this day twenty years ago, I was being interviewed by Jeff Fox from channel 3 news in CT about the banning of Pete Rose from baseball. Didn't know much about it then and looked like a fool on television. But, knowing what I know now about Pete it's hard not to have a feeling that things could have been much different if this man just admitted what he did instead of trying to lie his way out of situations. I can't see him being allowed back any time soon, even when Bud Selig goes.

Insane Bolt!

After posting a new World Record in the 100 M. Usain Bolt broke his 200 M World Record today. Is he the most exciting athlete in the world right now? I think I would have to say yes!!!

Random Thoughts Today

Yes! I'm Back! Lots to get to little time. Sorry for the delay but it is what it is, my Internet connection took a little longer than I first thought and now my life is in tact. Man, have I missed my computer. Let's get right to some thoughts for the day.

Doorbell...$2.00. Bar Stools...$17.00 each. Refrigerator...$699.00. Buying your own house...priceless. I can't even begin to describe the feeling that I have had doing things to my own place. My parents, God bless them, have gone above and beyond straightening out the crib while I've been at work. But, my greatest pleasure has been using all my free time on caring for my home. It has been costing me some $, but what are you going to do. Speaking of $, just got my first mortgage bill in the mail today, I don't know what I should do...frame it or throw it in the garbage.

God I hate the NFL PreSeason! Such a tease. The month of August drives me insane. It's hot, baseball teases us until the real month of the season: September, and I have been counting down the days until my Fantasy Football Draft. And to top things off, the NFL season doesn't start for another 3 weeks!

Few things about the MLB season I have thought of the last couple of weeks. The Yankees are better than I thought. The Red Sox pitching is worse than I thought. And Albert Pujols is as good if not better than I thought!

Still can't believe that Tiger lost last week. I was drunk and I still thought the putts he was hitting was way off!

Since I am on a very tight budget these days, here's just a glimpse of what my dinners are like now at the new home: salad...pasta...fishsticks! Gotta love it. I go grocery shopping and everywhere you look and everywhere you hear your suppose to eat healthy. I would just like to say, why should I do that to myself? Have you gone to the grocery store and seen the prices for the healthy food section? No wonder we have a weight problem in this country. Nobody can afford the healthy food so they settle for the 99 cents eggs instead of the 4.99 egg beaters. At least I can still afford Busch Light, which I have been hooked on the last month!

More to come, give me a chance to settle into the house and all will be well. Hope my readers didn't all leave me for good.

Please Stand By

The Nutz will have to be put on hold for a little while, since I have no Internet service in my new home at the moment. All is going well with the move, and I will be sure to keep you all up to date with what's going on as soon as possible. Been spending money like it's my job! I'd say I love, but that is an outright lie! Be well, and the posts will come soon enough. If only my brother, who has nothing to do by the way, would step up his game.

Shark Week

Every year in August the Discovery Channel has a week feature on Sharks also known as "Shark Week". Sharks are by far my favorite creature on this planet that I am totally terrified of. Where I am located now just down the 95 south turnpike, is the shark bite capital of the United States in New Smyrna Beach. This is the time of year where we find the most bites, because the surfers love the waves this time of year and it is a lot warmer as the sharks start moving more north. Maybe for many of you this is not your cup of tea, but I am thoroughly intrigued on how these creatures live, and of course what these idiots with these cameras are thinking by being around them. Here is a quick video of Great White Sharks, fish that we thankfully don't have to worry about around here. Enjoy!

Happy Anniversary Robin!

Again, how old are we? This happened 16 years ago today! Damn!

Another One Bites the Dust

Say it ain't so David? One of the most beloved Red Sox since Mike Greenwell was on the 2003 steroid list. I have to agree with Ozzie Guillen, enough with the delayed list. Get the entire list out asap so we don't have to hear anymore and we can move on. Every month there comes a name that gives the game another pop in the eye. This was a sad story that came up yesterday, but I should know by now that I shouldn't be too surprised by anyone that comes up on the list. Another bad day for baseball!

Done Deal!

After much pain, stress, and turmoil I finally closed on my house today at 2:05 p.m. Lots of emotion I have been feeling since the closing especially when I stepped into my new home for the first time. I have come a long way to get where I am today as a human being and I would just like to thank my family for sticking by me through the good times and bad. I had been a knucklehead for many years and I still had your support. And of course my close friends, you all know who you are. As hard as it is not to have you all around to share this moment with and of course drinking it up at my house warming party, you all were a major factor in me sticking it out down here in the Sunshine State, and for that you won't be forgotten. Especially, while I'm drinking beers on my back porch, miss you all. Thanks fellas!!!

Fat People Getting Hurt

I was in the mood last night to see people get hurt. I have nothing against fat people, hell, I'm trying to become a client. It's just funnier see this stuff happen to them!

What the Hell is Going On?

Something seriously is going on here. The celebrity death toll keeps rising. If you think this is just a coincidence, then you are obviously entitled to your own opinion. Me something is definitely is going on and it's not good for the celebs out there. I mean can anyone agree with me that this has easily been the biggest stretch of celebrity deaths in such a short time that the United States has ever seen? Let me show you the list and you be the judge...

Ed McMahon started things off on June 23rd at the age of 86, he had one of the more recognized voices in the country and was filthy rich then went bankrupt, still didn't die from stress that had probably overcame him. He still had no money, was still living in the same house because Mr. Trump bailed him out and was doing better than strangely passed and no one knew why because they thought that he was getting healthier. The very next day at 58, Ed Thomas was not as lucky. Dying almost instantly, from being shot by a crazed former player. He was not as recognized as McMahon because he didn't seek the public, but he was a very recognized high school football coach by his peers and beloved by many in his community.

Then on June 25th the nation which was almost expecting her death, Farrah Fawcett died at the age of 62 of cancer. When you heard the news, you had a feeling that the Fawcett family would absolutely love the attention that she will get now and then a couple of hours later a the biggest star that could ruin that dies in Michael Jackson of cardiac arrest. Are you serious? And let's not forget a voice that we have heard on commercials forever in Billy Mays on June 28th. The nation in every which way in overwhelmed in just 5 days. The death tolls slow down for about a week then it comes and hits us again, hard.

Steve McNair takes center stage on the Forth of July but many of us did not know or could care less to know that the creator of WD-40 past a day earlier in John Barry. Then two days after, a guy named Oscar Mayer Jr. goes. How can the executive of a company that gives us hot dogs die just after all we Americans do is eat his product to celebrate our nation a couple days earlier? Then the oldest living employee in America, bee-keeper Waldo McBurney, dies at the age of 106. Followed by Arturo Gatti, why he past is still in question, however it was he was way too young at 37. The former president of ABC passes on suddenly as well in Mark Mandala, then a man some people thought was already dead in Walter Cronkite, without much publicity. Then that damn Taco Bell dog dies of a stroke, Gidget, what the hell!!! Then most recently former boxing champion Vernon Forrest dies on July 25th in an attempted car robbery.

Way too many people in way too short of a time. Why is this happening? I haven't got the clue. But I can tell you that many celebs will be very happy to see the months with J's in them take a break until January.

Funny People

Once you see this trailer you get a better perspective on the movie than you would from the trailers on the commercials. This movie is not at all what I thought it was until I started watching this youtube trailer.

Jim Rice

I told my father today that I would pay a tribute to the baseball player Jim Rice. My father told me that he was lucky enough to get to see this man play in person when Rice was at the top of his game and easily one of the most feared hitters in the American League at that time. It's hard to argue. In the late 70s / early 80s you had guys like Ripken, Murray, Jackson, Brett, and Winfield. Guys already on their way to Hall of Fame status. Then there was Rice, quiet, arrogant, and yet among his teammates the best you can ask for. His delay for the Hall reminds me of someone from another sport that had credentials but overlooked...Art Monk. Rice's stats as a whole (career: .298/382/1451) aren't outstanding to say the least, especially since baseball is marked by how well your numbers are. Many say that he was one of the most feared hitters in baseball at during his prime, that alone has to bypass his career stats for the Hall. Think about these stats before you criticize his induction today:

-He is the only player to lead the majors in triples, homers, and runs batted in in the same season (1978).
-He hit 39 homers or more four times in his career
-Also, he had 8 seasons of more than 100 RBI
-Seven seasons he batted over .300
-Finished in the top 5 in AL MVP voting six times winning one in 1978
-In his rookie season he finished 2nd in ROY honors and 3rd in MVP

-8-time All-Star
-Pressured into playing LF guarding the Monster for 16 seasons after guys like Yaz and Williams.

Say what you want about the man whos numbers might not be quite there, but when you have stretch of a career like he had where he had each pitcher in the palm of his hand that deserves a right to Cooperstown. He deserves more than he was given, but finally after some time the Hall of Fame voters put the right man in.

Here's a little piece ESPN did for him, just to show you what kind of man Rice was not portrayed as.

Rice the hero

The NFL Draft to Expand

The audience for the NFL draft has been growing, and the league has responded by expanding the event from two to three days.

Commissioner Roger Goodell notified teams Thursday that the draft will be spread over three days in 2010, running Thursday, April 22, through Saturday, April 24.

In addition, the first round will start in prime time at 7:30 p.m. ET.

"We continue to look for ways to make the draft more accessible to more fans," Goodell said in a statement. "Moving the first round to prime time on Thursday night will make the first round of the draft available to fans on what is typically the most-watched night of television."

ESPN and the NFL Network will televise the entire show.

The second and third rounds will start at 6:30 p.m. ET on April 23.

Rounds 4 through 7 will be on April 24, starting at 10 a.m. ET.

A total of 39 million viewers watched the draft this year.

The NFL said the first round lasted just under 3½ hours in 2009, which would fit neatly into a prime-time slot.

From 1988 to 1994, the NFL held its draft on Sunday-Monday two-day blocks. From 1995 to 2009, the league made it a Saturday-Sunday event.

Information from ESPN.com's John Clayton and The Associated Press.

I don't know about any of you but I like this a lot. My only problem was that I did enjoy being lazy on my couch during the late rounds on Sunday and channel surfing back and forth to the draft. Should be very, very television friendly for us NFL Draft lovers from now on, especially now that we get to see and hear Mel Kiper spit out his nonsense about all the players drafted! God I love the Draft!

Who's Hungry?

A new feature to The Nutz, for the rest of the summer I will be posting each week and great summer food that anyone can enjoy being for the south or the north. Summer time is for some great drinking with some great eating out in the sunshine or on a cool summer night. Enjoy!

This week's food is ribs!

No matter pork or beef, sauteed or just pasted sauce on the grill, ribs makes for some great eaten during the summer with some cold beverages.

Here's a tip. Head to your local convenient or grocery store, preferably Arescos Superette, grab some pork ribs that are nice and thick. Also, grab the best BBQ Sauce in the business, in Jack Daniels Original #7 Barbecue Sauce and a apply it to the cold ribs in a tin and store them in the fridge for about 6 hours. Then your good to go, in the oven or on the grill, preferably on the grill though. So get yourself a rack of ribs this weekend and enjoy some summer sun.

Break Dancing at Church?

I found this video a couple of days ago and had to post it on my blog. This dude is just loving God and loving life. Pretty funny!

One Bright Spot at the ESPY's

Did any of you catch how my favorite sideline reporter was looking at the Espy's in LA last weekend but shown Sunday! I love this Gator girl and she was looking quite captivating on the ESPN red carpet. Getting to see her was one of the few bright spots, and there were only few, of the ESPY's on Sunday night. Oh my.

The Slacker is Back (Random Thoughts Today)

Man, does it suck getting older! I'm not talking in age, I talking being a responsible human being, it sucks. How much do I miss "The Apartment"? When I would just work a few jobs, pay my bills, go out Thursday...Friday...Saturday...and Sunday and still have some money left over for food. Man that was great! Now I find myself, going out not as late on the weekends only...saving money...and spending most of my time at Lowes, Home Depot, Target, and Walmart looking for things for my house. So I have been holding in on a ton of issues in my life and I can't take it anymore. So let's vent, here's some Random Thoughts from your slacker Deez...

Buying a house sucks ass! I am going to try to not do this for another 20 years, I hope! Things are still getting delayed regarding me moving into my first home, but hopefully (still crossing my fingers) it will be this Friday...hopefully! I wish I could tell all of you that it is because of my credit rating, or my pay is that low for a loan, or I just suck. But that is not the case at all. These f'n loan officers and underwriters taking care of thing are a bunch of slackers...more than me. Now I know why you have lawyers do all your work for you when your buying a home up north, you don't have to worry about crap. If I don't close on Friday, things could get ugly!

Damn you Tom Watson! I can't root for anyone in golf, because they just find a way to choke and ruin my Sunday! Tom, you gave me one of the best golf weekends of my life and with one 8 foot putt, you threw it right back into my face. Thanks for making me drink alone on Sunday Tom, your the best!

To ESPN, DO NOT PUT SAMUEL JACKSON HOSTING THE ESPY'S EVER AGAIN!!! p.s. why not bring back jt?

And you know what, F--- you Brett Favre and f--- you waiting til July 30th for your decision. I have had your back through the good times and bad, but this has gone too far. Enough is enough Brett, hang it up so the media can find something else to write or talk about.

Netflix is getting canceled this week and Directv might be on the way out the door as well. Time to start growing up and knowing where my money is going, and to be wasting it on these two companies is not helping me for the long term. Redbox, is more convenient, and $1 a day isn't bad at all. F--- your "long wait" or "very long wait" Netflix, I know you must be making some money, go get more copies and send the ones I want right away! Damn!!!

Something alittle more pleasant, I have finally been catching up on a ton of reading lately, especially with my book I've had on the right side of the blog forever now, Pistol. As much of a fan I was of him, even though I have only seen videos and read articles, this dude and his father were absolute nutjobs! And can anyone out there honestly tell me that they knew that Pistol Pete had an older brother? I'm half-way through this amazing book and I recommend anyone that is intrigued with this man to read it. One of the best biographies your ever going to read!

F--- Florida bugs!

F--- Florida drivers!

and F--- the Florida rich broads, bunch of _____!

One good thing that did come out of this week is that we are a week away from NFL training camp! Can you believe football season is almost here!

Big Fan

My brother Bill, sent this new movie starring Patton Oswalt that is coming out at the end of August. Still very unsure what I think about this film, but it definitely caught my eye. Just passing it onto my blog and onto my readers. Definitely, a much needed Random Thoughts post will come tomorrow. Since the baseball players have a day off tonight, so do I. America's Got Talent will own my television tonight.